I’m not much of an Army Times reader, but after read­ing that a bri­gade was ship­ping from Iraq in Octo­ber to serve as “an on-call fed­eral response force for nat­ural or man­made emer­gen­cies and dis­asters, includ­ing ter­ror­ist attacks” in the home­land right before the elec­tion, my anten­nae perked up.